Source:Stepney, Middlesex, England. St. George-in-the-East Church, Parish Records, 1754-1921

"St George in the East is an Anglican Church and one of six Hawksmoor churches in London, England. It was built from 1714 to 1729,with funding from the 1711 Act of Parliament. The name of the church was also the parish for the surrounding area, until subsumed into Metropolitan Borough of Stepney and abolished in 1927." [Source: Wikipedia - St George in the East]

"St George in the East, the church of, is situated on the north side of Ratclffie Highway, near the corner of Cannon Street. It is one of the fifty new churches appointed to be erected by act of parliament, in the reign of Queen Anne. It was began [sic] from the designs of Nicholas Hawksmoor, in 1715, and finished in 1729. The parish was taken from that of St Dunstan, Stepney (see that church), and was in all respects rendered an independent parish." [Source: James Elmes, M.R. I. A., Architect. A Topographical Dictionary of London and its Envirions (London: Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, 1831)]

District churches and chapelries lying within the boundaries of St George in the East, St George:

• St George in the East, Christ Church Watney Street- 1841
• St George in the East, St Mary Cable Street - 1842
• Good Shepherd Chapel, Watts Street, Stepney - 1857
• St George in the East with St. Matthew, Pell Street (Princes Square) - 1729
• St John the Evangelist in the East, Grove Street - 1870
• St Mary, Johnson Street - 1850
• St Peter Old Gravel Lane, London Docks - 1866 (part from Shadwell)
• East London Mission of the Jews, Commercial Rd - 1892